Author: David Ignatius, Washington Post columnist, won the 2000 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary and a 2004 Edward Weintal Prize. Former executive editor of the Paris-based International Herald Tribune. Post´s foreign editor from 1990 to 1992, supervising the paper´s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Before joining the Post in 1986, Ignatius spent 10 years as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. He covered the Justice Department, the CIA and the U.S. Senate in Washington, and from 1980 to 1983

Publisher/Date: Franklin Library, PA 1991.

Signed First Edition

Format/Condition: Full leather bound book with gilt decorative covers, a.e.g., marbled end papers, & ribbon is in very good plus condition: small blemishes on gold-gilt textblock. No bookplate, not embossed, nor are there any other signs of previous ownership.

Description: Spy novel. As the Shah flees Iran and the Soviets march into Afghanistan, CIA chief Edward Stone, Alan Taylor, head of the Istanbul CIA base, and Harvard historian-turned agent Anna Barnes embark on a scheme to destabilize the Soviet Union